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Tanya Robinson

020 7797 8400 tanyarobinson@6pumpcourt.co.uk

Work Department

Crime – general, coroner’s, regulatory.

Position

Tanya Robinson specialises in criminal cases, coroner’s inquests and regulatory work. She is a persuasive advocate, well used to dealing with the pressures of sensitive, demanding cases, and always prepared to go the extra mile. She has considerable experience in criminal cases, defending and prosecuting those charged with murder, serious child cruelty (including baby shaking and fracture cases), serious violence (including medical, pathological and blood spatter evidence), arson (including detailed forensic evidence), fraud, firearms (including expert ballistics/firearms evidence), serious drugs (including detailed tachograph opinion and cellsite/telephone evidence) and serious sexual offences (including the cross-examination of vulnerable witnesses, including those with learning difficulties using an intermediary, multi-complainant/historic allegations both as leading and junior counsel, diagnostic/non-diagnostic medical evidence, complex computer evidence, sexsomnia, the use of intermediaries and staying historical cases as an abuse of process). She has an extensive Coroners’ Court practice. She regularly acts for the police in jury inquests where there have been deaths following police shooting (suicide by cop), deaths in custody, and deaths following road traffic accidents involving the police (including multiple fatality cases) requiring sensitive witness handling (including questioning the deceased’s family and witnesses potentially responsible for the death), presenting and challenging complex expert evidence (including psychiatry, pathology, neurology, toxicology, ballistics, firearms, ACPO policy and training), making complex legal submissions to the coroner on Human Rights matters (including how article 2 impacts on the scope of the inquest, how article 8 impacts on the admissibility of evidence including bad character) and the availability of verdicts. She represents nursing homes following deaths in care and has advised clients in relation to health and safety issues, corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter following deaths in assisted housing. She also advises and prosecutes on behalf of local authorities and other regulatory bodies such as DEFRA and BIS. She is authorised to accept direct instructions. She has been an advocacy trainer at Inner Temple since 2009.

Career

Called 1997; Inner Temple Scholar.

Languages

French.

Memberships

Criminal Bar Association; South Eastern Circuit (past Circuit Junior); Kent Bar Mess.

Education

Henry Box School, Oxfordshire; Southampton University (LLB European Legal Studies incorporating one year studying at Rouen University).

Leisure

Music, eating out, scuba diving, snowboarding.